The Importance of Board Certification in a Louisiana Eye Doctor

There are undoubtedly a lot of eye doctors in your area of Louisiana. This can make it difficult to choose the doctor who is right for you and your family. And you understand that this choice is crucial; after all, you’re protective of your eyes, and your vision is vitally important to your day-to-day life.

How to make the choice of who will oversee your eye care, then? There are a lot of factors you’ll want to consider, but one trait you should always look for in an eye doctor in Louisiana is board certification.

Board certification serves as a kind of stand-in for the two most important elements of the right eye doctor: experience and skill. At The Eye Surgery Center of Louisiana, our eye doctors are board certified because we believe in the importance of offering you the highest quality care possible.

What is Board Certification?

Board certification is not some meaningless honor that every eye doctor achieves with little effort. And it’s not mandatory either; you can practice as a doctor in the state of Louisiana without board certification.

Put simply, board certification is an acknowledgement by a governing body (composed of experts in the relevant field) that a doctor has reached certain benchmarks and requirements.

Doctors who are certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology have:

Completed a four-year residency program in ophthalmology

Received satisfactory evaluations from the residency programs of which they were a part

Pass a series of rigorous oral and written examinations

Display a commitment to keeping up on the latest tools, technologies and techniques

That last point is crucial. Board certification from the American Board of Ophthalmology is not a lifetime award. Instead, the certification must be renewed 10 years after its initial acquisition. This ensures that your Louisiana eye doctor is working hard to keep his or her skills fresh and keeps up with the latest innovations in the field.

At The Eye Surgery Center of Louisiana, our eye doctors do just that. We’re committed to your health and well-being, and we do the hard work necessary to prove it.